Open Stack

Guys.... you just described Kolla-Kubernetes pretty much... how about
we join effort and work towards this goal together?

On 14 July 2017 at 08:43, Flavio Percoco <flavio at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 14/07/17 17:26 +0200, Bogdan Dobrelya wrote:
>>
>> On 14.07.2017 11:17, Flavio Percoco wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> As some of you know, I've been working on the second phase of TripleO's
>>> containerization effort. This phase if about migrating the docker based
>>> deployment onto Kubernetes.
>>>
>>> These phase requires work on several areas: Kubernetes deployment,
>>> OpenStack
>>> deployment on Kubernetes, configuration management, etc. While I've been
>>> diving
>>> into all of these areas, this email is about the second point, OpenStack
>>> deployment on Kubernetes.
>>>
>>> There are several tools we could use for this task. kolla-kubernetes,
>>> openstack-helm, ansible roles, among others. I've looked into these
>>> tools and
>>> I've come to the conclusion that TripleO would be better of by having
>>> ansible
>>> roles that would allow for deploying OpenStack services on Kubernetes.
>>>
>>> The existing solutions in the OpenStack community require using Helm.
>>> While I
>>> like Helm and both, kolla-kubernetes and openstack-helm OpenStack
>>> projects, I
>>> believe using any of them would add an extra layer of complexity to
>>> TripleO,
>>
>>
>> It's hard to estimate that complexity w/o having a PoC of such an
>> integration. We should come up with a final choice once we have it done.
>>
>> My vote would go for investing engineering resources into solutions that
>> have problems already solved, even by the price of added complexity (but
>> that sort of depends...). Added complexity may be compensated with
>> removed complexity (like those client -> Mistral -> Heat -> Mistral ->
>> Ansible manipulations discussed in the mail thread mentioned below [0])
>
>
> I agree it's hard to estimate but you gotta draw the line somewhere. I
> actually
> spent time on this and here's a small PoC of ansible+mariadb+helm. I wrote
> the
> pyhelm lib (took some code from the openstack-helm folks) and I wrote the
> ansible helm module myself. I'd say I've spent enough time on this research.
>
> I don't think getting a full PoC working is worth it as that will require
> way
> more work for not much value since we can anticipate some of the
> complexities
> already.
>
> As far as the complexity comment goes, I disagree with you. I don't think
> you're
> evaluating the amount of complexity that there *IS* already in TripleO and
> how
> adding more complexity (layers, states, services) would make things worse
> for
> not much extra value.
>
> By all means, I might be wrong here so, do let me know if you're seeing
> something I'm not.
> Flavio
> --
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> Flavio Percoco
>
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